Anyone surprised that a woman interprets the opposite of what you are trying to say?

When I told my wife, she had the exact same reaction as the OP. I would blame women looking to get offended at something before i say the commercial is demeaning. I took it as "moms have it rough, this device will be able to handle how rough moms have it"

I honestly could care less about the ads, but I will be throughly ****ed if my mom gets one. I have to spend a few hours a month trying to explain to her how to use her 5 year old xp computer. God forbid I have to explain another tech device to her.

commercial is stupid if you ask me... i can't remember the last time the cell phone market was driven by stay home moms. Last time i checked most people who own smartphones are, Younger people and tech savy people. not stay home mothers...

Not that there aren't stay home moms that buy phones but i just don't see that as the big market.

The most offensive things I find about those ads are the hairstyles. But seriously, I think it's an attempt at a multitasking metaphor with a satirical edge. Perhaps the use of outdated stereotypes was misguided and not everyone may see the poor attempt at the irony that many mothers today are not home all day to create post it charts but we are in fact out in the workforce creating post it charts (note tongue in cheek).

Perhaps I'm in the minority here but after the masculine beast of a phone they call Droid, I like having a phone that does everything I need it to without looking like I'm carrying a paperback in my pocket. And I'm not so peeved about it being marketed to "Moms". We do have busy lives that require organizing many categories of information.

We can have pointless OS and hardware debates all day and never come to an agreement. Each has its positives and negatives and regardless of whether your chromosomes end in X or Y you should just get the phone you like best that suits your needs.

I honestly could care less about the ads, but I will be throughly ****ed if my mom gets one. I have to spend a few hours a month trying to explain to her how to use her 5 year old xp computer. God forbid I have to explain another tech device to her.

I am so with you here. If I hear the words "you have to teach me how to (insert thing I've already taught her 5 times over)" one more time I just might drop kick her computer across the front lawn.

I don't think the ads are meant to imply anything bad about moms (as many have said, my understanding was the opposite). However, they certainly are not going to help me convince my young, mostly male friends that the Pre is cooler than the iPhone.

commercial is stupid if you ask me... i can't remember the last time the cell phone market was driven by stay home moms. Last time i checked most people who own smartphones are, Younger people and tech savy people. not stay home mothers...

Not that there aren't stay home moms that buy phones but i just don't see that as the big market.

I just watched the commercial on youtube and I didn't get that impression at all. In fact, you wrote "Smart enough for mom", but it doesn't say that, it says "smart enough to keep up with mom"... that's actually a compliment to moms....

UPDATE: OK, I see what you're saying. I just saw the other Valentine commercial and it has written down "smart enough for mom", but she actually does say "smart enough to keep up with mom" in that one too... probably a typo on Verizon's part.....

So what...I am supposed to think Verizon's new ad campaign for the Pre & Pixi is great marketing...because I'm a mom & I guess "not smart"!

So much for the business & accounting degrees I earned & the 20+ years as a Controller/MIS Director....I guess when I popped those 2 kids out....I just became stupid!

It is a just a teeny tiny bit ironic that someone rants about being offended by being called stupid, when, in fact, they were being told that no previous phone was smart enough to keep up. Stay away from sharp objects, mom!